My dog is fine, though, which is the most important thing to me. The raccoons scratched my arm kinda bad and my legs are covered in scratches. My doctor can’t be sure if the raccoons had saliva on their claws, and wants me to get rabies shots just in case. She sent me to an ER because she can’t get the shots in our area.
I’ve been at the hospital for 3 hours and haven’t been seen.
It’s after my bedtime and I have to wake up at 5am for work…
I’m not having a good time.
Choose your capitalist fate!
Path A: medical bankruptcy.
Path B: incurable disease and certain horrible death.
Quite a system the wealthy have built for us. I’ll be terribly disappointed if the book doesn’t end with a bunch of guillotines.
Path C: Go out biting some people who have it coming.
Luckily we offer a guillotine protection insurance policy for an affordable $85,000,000 per year. It’s optional, but the upfront cost could be $650,000,000,000 if you get caught in a guillotine without it. Just be sure to get dragged to one of our in-network guillotines.
Sounds good. What’s the deductible and cover rate tho? I mean you’re certainly not paying everything once I got caught in a guillotine even tho that’s what I pay you monthly for.
Path C: get fired without cause because you needed to take a day off to recover.
I’ll also be disappointed
So would I
*American fate
Capitalist was correct. Look in Europe, the social health system is non stop attacked and set in danger. More and more, capitalist system wants health to be a an open market
Same in Canada. Every year we hear of at least one province debating privatizing healthcare as though thats gonna fix our problems and not just make it exponentially worse.
Meh free healthcare is in our constitution, just like many other countries in Europe. The only place experiencing this problem to this degree is the United States. It’s not a capitalist problem at all.
some friendly advice, maybe don’t cite your explicitly socialist constitution when explaining that capitalism isn’t ackshually the problem.
Wow. This is the stupidest thing I’ll read all week. Thanks, friend!
some friendly advice, maybe you should read more
He said without a hint of irony.
Socialism in EU may not have the meaning you think it has, it’s very distinct from communism. It can be called social democracy, like Bernie Sanders, maybe.
For example, the previous French president was from the French Socialist Party and the current primer minister of Spain is from the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, and they are not radical lefties.
In this case, socialism means accepting the free market capitalism for the efficiency it may bring to the economy, but with good regulation and, mainly what the USA lack, a good social safety net (free healthcare, free education etc…).Socialist constitution means they have in there provisions to impede the private ownership of the means of production.
This is why we need better education in the US.
Also, this is why we can’t have healthcare. We don’t know why we deserve it.
I was talking to a person once about single-payer Canadian healthcare. And she said, but what if someone doesn’t work? Should they still get it?
[I mean, yes.]
I said, how come you don’t ask that question about cops and firefighters? You don’t say, well if someone doesn’t work, should the firefighter’s come to their house if there is a fire? We have single-payer police insurance and single-payer firefighter insurance.
But after the fire, you’re on your own!
America! Fuck, yeah.
Yeah, well health shouldn’t be a market in the first place.
The 38 OECD economies are all capitalist. Only 1 lacks universal healthcare.
That’s a helluva expensive shot. I mean, you should definitely get it, but nobody should have to pay that much for it. I guess that’s USA…
That’s just the copays for all the shots. I have no idea how much of the vaccines will be covered
What the fuck is your copay? There are only like four shots for the vaccine.
Only in the US is it they expensive.
Otherwise infuriating and time-consuming… Perhaps everywhere. But really, rabies is not! something to mess around with. Even with the smallest chance.
Call your lawyer and sue the shit out of those raccoons. I hear they’re rich.
Omfg you right. You think this guy would help?
He’s a tanuki/raccoon dog, not a raccoon
The law does not make such distinctions!
In Florida, you have to use the trash can you were assigned at birth.
Man I’ve NEVER heard of a raccoon attack that’s fucked up. I’ve interacted with a million raccoons (including one that broke into my kitchen once) and they have never come close to attacking me. Sounds like they might indeed have rabies. Glad you and your pup sound ok. Just call in sick if you need the sleep tomorrow.
These raccoons were young and seemed scared. They made some wicked noises though. I stayed inside for as long as possible after that. I didn’t know if a mama raccoon was hanging around
Yeah, that’s not a fun situation to be in. Are you fortunate enough to have sick time that you can use for this unplanned event?
I used all of my sick time when my ovaries were covered with cysts and I couldn’t move because of the pain. My work is very accommodating though, so I’ll be able to take time off unpaid.
Oh dear! That pain was probably unimaginable and I am so sorry you had to go through it. If I were your manager, I’d find a way to pay you.
I didn’t feel the scratches and stuff until hours later. I was so full of adrenaline. The rabies shots were ungodly painful.
Medicare for all. Not only would your visit be free, but you’ll be paying less in taxes than handing blank checks to billionaires through for-profit insurance companies. That regularly deny your claims.
man that really sucks. i had to get rabies shots a couple years ago and it was not fun. for my second follow up shot i thought about skipping the wait in the ER and going to a pharmacy 40 minutes away that offered rabies vaccines, only to find out there’s a difference between pre-exposure and post-exposure shots and having to go to the ER anyway. if you end up also getting tired of the 3 hour waits in the ER and look for an alternative, i would strongly recommend making sure they offer post-exposure vaccines.
Damn Trash Pandas!
Also, rabies is no joke. Hope you get your shots soon!
I just got them. I swear to God if the raccoons come back…
You are now immune so fight them back! Lots of?biting and clawing until they accept you as their leader.
Oh fuck I can totally assert dominance once I have the full rabies shot series
They’re good for a few years but not forever.
This is one reason why I’m glad there’s no rabies in Australia.
Yes, but every animal is venomous. You guys probably die in 5 seconds from a wombat bite.
There’s some things I don’t miss. I used to have to shake my mail because big spiders would get into the slot on the mailbox :)
Nah, wombats just lure you into sticking your head in the hole they’re hiding in, and then crush your skull with their muscly ass. https://theoatmeal.com/comics/wombats
I’m sorry this happened to you, but it’s better to be safe than sorry. By the time clinical signs of rabies present, you’re already a “dead man walking” so to say. I hope you and your dog are able to recover swiftly!
Exactly. I don’t want rabies. And thank you! My dog didn’t realize we were being attacked and wanted to play with the critters. Made it harder to get him inside. I didn’t even realize I was injured until some time later when I noticed scratches on me. Adrenaline is crazy.
So sorry! please update us.
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I’m most relieved that your pal (dog) is ok. Sucks a bunch. Hope you’re both doing well.
My dog being okay is the most important thing. I almost took my puppy outside first, which would have been so bad. She’s too young for her rabies shot still, so it would have been bad if she had been out there. She isn’t much bigger than the raccoons were. My adult dog is twice the size of the raccoons, and has had his shots.
On the positive side, you are now one of an elite group of those who have a raccoon attack story.
Not only that, but a raccoon gang. That’s like an initiation into the raccoon underworld, full of human trash smugglers.
And lived to tell about it
Sucks to be waiting, but while your sitting there, maybe watch a few videos of people suffering from the effects of rabies. You probably won’t feel so bad about the wait after that.
Happy your pooch is safe and sound, as well
The simple fact that untreated rabies is almost 100% fatal means that the vaccine is worth it. Not many diseases are almost 100% fatal, and at least this one’s preventable if caught.
There were a bunch of crazy drug seekers and criminals and shit being treated and that was pretty entertaining lol
